Dan Ancona
@danancona.bsky.social
Daddo and married to @jenancona. Standing athwart history yelling, WTF. Research, writing, ads, and building processes for understanding and persuading across the Dem-left coalition.
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Dan Ancona
@danancona.bsky.social
· Oct 11
The Trump-Vance mass deportation plans are sickeningly extreme. Most Americans don't support them and Dems have room to go on offense on this. Ad by me and the geniuses I am incredibly lucky to work with at Way to Win, production by Conexión. (both not on here yet)
One of our Christmas Day traditions is to put this on with Christmas music. If I can persuade the amp to do this.
youtu.be/L3jQnCxrdKg?...
youtu.be/L3jQnCxrdKg?...
Slow TV: [HD] Train Cab Ride - Bergen to Oslo (Norway) - 7:14:09
YouTube video by SlowTV-Channel
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December 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
One of our Christmas Day traditions is to put this on with Christmas music. If I can persuade the amp to do this.
youtu.be/L3jQnCxrdKg?...
youtu.be/L3jQnCxrdKg?...
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the first lol
the first lol
born is the king
of roflmao
the first lol
born is the king
of roflmao
December 25, 2025 at 5:03 AM
the first lol
the first lol
born is the king
of roflmao
the first lol
born is the king
of roflmao
Love this. I held back a bit on some my grievances this year, not a mistake I will make in 2026!
It's Festivus, so I'm going to air some grievances.
1. If you're going to write a year end story about how scientists responded to authoritarianism and *NOT* include @standupforscience.bsky.social in the write up or cite that the photo you used as your header is from one of our rallies...that's bs.
1. If you're going to write a year end story about how scientists responded to authoritarianism and *NOT* include @standupforscience.bsky.social in the write up or cite that the photo you used as your header is from one of our rallies...that's bs.
December 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Love this. I held back a bit on some my grievances this year, not a mistake I will make in 2026!
I’m about sign off to go shop (for food! Presents are sorted) but just read this and the equally jaw dropping @radleybalko.bsky.social ICE story. The group chat consensus of Dems is to avoid or (somehow) move right on this. But the iceberg is sitting right there. We can still steer away from it.
Now that Bari Weiss pulled a segment telling the truth about Trump's deportations to let Stephen Miller have his say (i.e. spread propaganda), it's a good time to check out our deep dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda, which doesn't pull any punches:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’m about sign off to go shop (for food! Presents are sorted) but just read this and the equally jaw dropping @radleybalko.bsky.social ICE story. The group chat consensus of Dems is to avoid or (somehow) move right on this. But the iceberg is sitting right there. We can still steer away from it.
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That a WaPo investigation cites Amazon Prime as a metaphor for abuse is a tiny hopeful sign for me. Maybe the shackles on expression under Bezos are not quite as tight as we fear.
Another example of why "just unsubscribe from the Post" is not always the most helpful frame for how to respond to the enshittification of legacy media.
Support indie journalism, for sure. But this stuff is valuable and *expensive.* I don't want to abandon the people that do this work.
Support indie journalism, for sure. But this stuff is valuable and *expensive.* I don't want to abandon the people that do this work.
WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people.
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
December 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
That a WaPo investigation cites Amazon Prime as a metaphor for abuse is a tiny hopeful sign for me. Maybe the shackles on expression under Bezos are not quite as tight as we fear.
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Merry Christmas Eve! May the glory of the season and spirit of the holiday fill your hearts with joy and love. Peace on earth, goodwill to all.
December 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Merry Christmas Eve! May the glory of the season and spirit of the holiday fill your hearts with joy and love. Peace on earth, goodwill to all.
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welcome to the Second Annual Bluesky Christmas Eve Snowball Fight!
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
it’s Christmas Eve morning and apparently Bluesky is in a fightin’ mood today.
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
December 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
welcome to the Second Annual Bluesky Christmas Eve Snowball Fight!
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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hard agree
Political and corporate spokespeople now regularly treat a request for comment from the mainstream media as an opportunity to drop a free ad into the middle of the story. Bad faith non-responses should just be discarded, with a note that they declined to respond to the substance of the question.
WH spokesperson Abigail Jackson said "60 Minutes should spend their time and energy amplifying the stories of Angel Parents, whose innocent American children have tragically been murdered by vicious illegal aliens that President Trump are removing from the country."
December 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
hard agree
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Everyone in the government that was involved in sending American people to the CECOT concentration camp must go to prison.
Prison. There must be consequences. Starting with Kristi Noem.
Prison. There must be consequences. Starting with Kristi Noem.
Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Everyone in the government that was involved in sending American people to the CECOT concentration camp must go to prison.
Prison. There must be consequences. Starting with Kristi Noem.
Prison. There must be consequences. Starting with Kristi Noem.
This is all completely insane!!
The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax.
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov
December 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is all completely insane!!
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Elective Affinities, 1933 #magritte #renemagritte
December 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Elective Affinities, 1933 #magritte #renemagritte
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So we may have found the single most unpopular thing Trump has done in 2025 - the vainglorious renaming of the Kennedy Center after himself (via Economist/YouGov):
18% approve, 66% disapprove
18% approve, 66% disapprove
December 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
So we may have found the single most unpopular thing Trump has done in 2025 - the vainglorious renaming of the Kennedy Center after himself (via Economist/YouGov):
18% approve, 66% disapprove
18% approve, 66% disapprove
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This year’s Presidential Christmas card.
December 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This year’s Presidential Christmas card.
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Wassail [wah-SEYL]
(n.)
- A hot potation served in a large bowl during Christmas.
- Lively festivities; revelry.
(v.)
- To drink and enjoy oneself with others.
- To go singing carols.
(n.)
- A hot potation served in a large bowl during Christmas.
- Lively festivities; revelry.
(v.)
- To drink and enjoy oneself with others.
- To go singing carols.
December 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Wassail [wah-SEYL]
(n.)
- A hot potation served in a large bowl during Christmas.
- Lively festivities; revelry.
(v.)
- To drink and enjoy oneself with others.
- To go singing carols.
(n.)
- A hot potation served in a large bowl during Christmas.
- Lively festivities; revelry.
(v.)
- To drink and enjoy oneself with others.
- To go singing carols.
I’m only half way through but this is a wild ride. And this is the level of analysis we bring to our own ad process, not even judging. It’s why a two minute ad takes months.
only one christmas commercial inspired CJ the x’s most unhinged video
December 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I’m only half way through but this is a wild ride. And this is the level of analysis we bring to our own ad process, not even judging. It’s why a two minute ad takes months.
Whoa cool
My annual roundup of new East Bay separated bikeways via @bikeeastbay.bsky.social is live, w photos & details for a record 35 facilities across 10 cities.
BikeEastBay.org/2025protectedbikeways/
BikeEastBay.org/2025protectedbikeways/
December 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Whoa cool
Breathtaking amounts of absurd, bald faced, open corruption.
Overall, this big @nytimes.com investigation identified $500m+ that was donated to Trump-backed groups AFTER the election from 346 donors.
It found that more than half of the donors have benefited in some way from actions by Trump or his administration. (gift link)
It found that more than half of the donors have benefited in some way from actions by Trump or his administration. (gift link)
December 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Breathtaking amounts of absurd, bald faced, open corruption.
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especially in the dark hours we need to remember that we are going to win
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
especially in the dark hours we need to remember that we are going to win
Kinda forgot that I had a thread take off on the strategic limitations of the kind of thinking that has now become WAR Brain… in the year of our lord 2019.
December 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Kinda forgot that I had a thread take off on the strategic limitations of the kind of thinking that has now become WAR Brain… in the year of our lord 2019.
Hell yeah!!
This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
December 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Hell yeah!!
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2025's oligarchical ascension has spurred a backlash from Mitt Romney, let alone those to his left. As Harold Meyerson writes, "Democrats will either go full progressive populist, or they won’t go anywhere at all." prospect.org/2025/12/22/h...
A Happy 2025 By-Product: Revulsion at the Rich - The American Prospect
With Trump, Musk, Bezos et al. running amok, progressive economic populism is on the rise. Polling shows a broad public turn toward policy that seeks to reverse the upward redistribution of income and...
prospect.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
2025's oligarchical ascension has spurred a backlash from Mitt Romney, let alone those to his left. As Harold Meyerson writes, "Democrats will either go full progressive populist, or they won’t go anywhere at all." prospect.org/2025/12/22/h...
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The Trump supporter who runs CBS news just killed a story about Trump’s favorite torture prison. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.
December 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The Trump supporter who runs CBS news just killed a story about Trump’s favorite torture prison. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.
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The most impressive thing about Bari is her ability to violate ethical principles while indignantly claiming to defend them.
Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The most impressive thing about Bari is her ability to violate ethical principles while indignantly claiming to defend them.
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